spi·der·gram -a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.
When I graduated from high school, I moved from the security of my Sacramento suburban home, to the great city of Chicago. Chicago has given me some great opportunities, friends and experiences that I interpret here on my blog. It gives others a look into the way I think, and experience life. My blog is a peek at my mindmap, or spidergram if you will.

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Monday, February 24, 2014

Since the beginning of time it has largely been the same.
We make pictures,
of animals,
of gods and creation,
of significant events,
of the lands around us,
but most of all we make images of our selves.

In what will be called "The age of the Selfie" the act of capturing the self is nothing new.

For centuries the upper classes documented themselves in oil paintings that covered the walls of castles and chateaus. These paintings are how we know so much of the lives of the wealthy before the skills of reading and writing were common. They might not have had enough money to write their memoirs. But they could try to capture their entire lives in a single portrait.

Painted portraits were the only way to capture a physical image other than sculpture until the the late 19th century. Thousands of years of human faces only captured in paint. Now we live in a world where your face will exist for an eternity in thousands of forms on the internet. We all have the power to capture our face and put it out for all to see thanks to platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Imagine trying to capture the sum of your life in a selfie. Would your friends and family be involved, would you be using a bathroom mirror, on a beach or in a city, would you be able to see the background at all or just your face...

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Life is lived within this spectrum. I live in this spectrum.
Between the fear of my cold apartment floor and the wonder of a bowl of cereal.
Between the fear of rejection and the wonder of a new love.
Between the fear of the polar vortex and the wonder of an arctic city.

About Me

I am a current student college student at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, as an interdisciplinary fine art major. I chose to sacrifice the wonders of my childhood home in the great valley in California to slowly begin upon my ambition to better understand the globe, its inhabitants, people, animals and otherwise though travel and art both abroad and at home.

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"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go write it down, either you over dramatize it or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate you never write it quite the way you want to." -Sylvia Plath

"I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain burried along the side of our memories."- Everything is Illuminated